Friedrich Albert Lange 1828 – 1875
Friedrich Albert Lange (1828 – 1875) was a German philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Continental Philosophy.
Friedrich Albert Lange was a German neo-Kantian philosopher and social theorist and the author of the most influential nineteenth-century critique of materialism. Trained at Bonn and Zurich, he spent his career between Duisburg, Winterthur, and Marburg, where he was finally appointed to a chair shortly before his death. His two-volume History of Materialism, published in 1866 and much expanded in 1873 to 1875, traced the materialist tradition from antiquity to the present and argued that materialism, while a useful working assumption of the natural sciences, is metaphysically untenable from a Kantian standpoint. The book shaped a generation of European thinkers, including the young Nietzsche.
Key facts
- Nationality
- German
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Continental Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Materialism is a useful method, but a false metaphysics.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“What we call reality is a representation, not a thing in itself.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Idealism is the philosophical conscience of the natural sciences.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“The labor question is the moral question of our age.”
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Attributed to Friedrich Albert Lange:
“Beautiful illusions are also part of human reality.”
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